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Even as the city of Beijing painted its grass green earlier this year to impress visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese...
Each of these wrongs should be roundly condemned, and each provides an independent justification for denying Beijing the Olympic Games. The IOC has a unique opportunity to show China that disregard for human rights and international law is unacceptable, and it should not squander the opportunity...
...symbolic meaning of the Olympics would lavish unwarranted praise on China, undermining these efforts. The Olympics have long served as a testament to the need for governments to respect the dignity of individual achievement by bringing the best athletes in the world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal. At worst, it would embolden Beijing to commit even more flagrant infractions by showing that the international...
Bullies should not be appeased. The IOC needs to stand up to one of the world’s great bullies by not awarding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to Beijing. The torch of Olympic idealism simply must not be engulfed in China’s dark night of oppression...
...Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...